outline-regexp) using ";; *+ " for elisp code

[Christopher Dimech]

Hi Joost,

Could you assist with another capability.  I would like to use a keybinding
to cycle the folding of headers only.

"H-<left>"   fold
"H-<right>"  unfold

Regards
Christopher

> Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2021 at 10:29 PM
> From: "Joost Kremers" <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>
> To: "Christopher Dimech" <dimech@gmx.com>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: outline-regexp) using ";; *+ " for elisp code
>
>
> On Tue, May 11 2021, Christopher Dimech wrote:
> > defvar-local is buffer-local variable. I would think that I could use defvar
> > as the setting rather than a buffer-local variable, as the value would be 
> > the
> > same for all elisp files.
>
> =defvar= and =defvar-local= define global variables. The difference is that
> variables defined with =defvar-local= become buffer-local whenever they are 
> set
> (with =setq=). But the value set with the =defvar-local= expression itself is
> the default value, which is the value that applies in buffers that do not have
> their own local value for said variable. (You can set a default value 
> explicitly
> with =setq-default=.)
>
>
>
> --
> Joost Kremers
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>